DH works 2 jobs so I am with the girls alone a lot. On average I am solo parenting probably 65 hours per week...give or take depending on that weeks work load. It's rough sometimes, especially towards the end of the week. Monday's are usually ok though, which is nice.
How many hours do you solo parent per week?
pear / 1558 posts
Most every hour of the week. 
DH is so incredibly busy with work, so besides an hour in the evening & a few hours each weekend day, it's all me. It's sad that he gets so little time with LO right now. Hopefully things will change for the better with his job this next year.
pear / 1737 posts
Same as @GoGoSnoGirl for me. Some days are harder than others. I usually don't get an evening break until babe is in bed.
persimmon / 1147 posts
7am to 6pm Monday through Friday so always 55 hours plus the occasional weekend few hours so 60 tops. It's hard but DH is home for bedtime routines and dinner/ dinner clean up so that's always a relief to have a second person then.
pomelo / 5573 posts
I'm home all day with W, but I'm on mat leave so I feel like that doesn't count. I have them both by myself for about an hour every day. Totally not bad but I still find myself counting the minutes until he gets home.
persimmon / 1467 posts
7 am till 5 pm with occasional weekend stuff. It's not bad. And I'm starting back At work soon so he'll have them some evenings from 4 ish on. I really hate the days he gets home after 5 because that's about when baby melt down time starts.
pineapple / 12053 posts
3-4 full days a week on average. And by full days I mean 24 hours as DH is a firefighter. But this last week he was gone for 6 days except sleeping at home one night. On the flip side, when he's home, it can sometimes be 4-6 days at once! So it's a huge variable.
eggplant / 11716 posts
I was home all summer, so I guess about 55 hours a week or so, while my husband is working.
But I JUST started back to work, so now I'll just be soloing from 4-7 pm every day until DH is home from work, too. Through the dinner prep/feed/bathtime rush.
papaya / 10570 posts
DH leaves for work at 7.15am every day and his mornings are all about getting himself ready, so I'm solo from the moment the kids wake, until I drop E at nursery at 9am. Then I'm with the baby all day (on maternity leave) until its time to pick E up. DH gets home at 6ish, just as I am starting the bedtime routines. He also works Saturday mornings, so I solo parent then too. I make it 60.5hrs. It sucks - I long for a husband who can do nursery drop offs and pick ups.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Not much! DH solo parents way more than I do since I WOH FT and he has 1 weekday off plus more flexible working hours.
cherry / 176 posts
I solo parent (2 young children) 25-30 hours per week. My husband will start solo parenting 5-8 hours per week so I can start working out of the home an extra day. It feels like I'm solo a lot more than that!
pineapple / 12793 posts
35 hours.
DH is working a summer schedule and is home a lot lately. It's been amazing. I love how flexible his schedule can be.
We've been talking about me going back full time and are leaning towards not doing it because we can go on vacation for a month and he can manage his business on the phone or online. It'll be a big change going back to a 40hr week.
persimmon / 1270 posts
I work 4 days a week but often solo parent 3 - 4 nights and 2 or 3 of the days I am not working. DHs hours are all over the place. It's killing me right now as I am 38 weeks pregnant... The days aren't as bad as dinner/bedtime.
persimmon / 1101 posts
Maybe 3/4 hours? Just when lo and I get home from work/daycare before dh and maybe run a quick errand together during the weekend. I don't know how y'all do it, I find that sort amount of time totally stressful and overwhelming!
eggplant / 11287 posts
From when the kids wake up (DH works at 3/4 am) to 3pm each day. And nights, because DH is sleeping due to his work schedule. I much prefer this schedule to when I had the kids from 1 pm to 11 pm. That shift was NOT fun.
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
Lo's daycare is closed right now for summer break (basically 1/2 of August and 1/2 Sept--it's weird!), but when it reopens in 2 weeks, I'll only solo-parent 1 day a week (Fridays), so 8 hours plus occasional nights or weekends. Last academic year (Sept-early Aug) I would pick lo up at 3pm M-Th, so I would solo 16 hours/week (3-5pm 4 days, plus Fridays).
grapefruit / 4455 posts
@Bao: right now DH is on days so only generally the weekends plus sometimes the nights after I get home from work if he is OT. We have very few days off together, maybe every few weeks and that's been a lot. When he goes back to nights probably in the next month or two it will be more.
pomegranate / 3350 posts
I SAH so that's technically my job. Usually DH is gone for work about 10 hours and sometimes a few hours here and there on weekends. So 50-60 hours.
persimmon / 1445 posts
Tons 
DH works split and night shifts pretty much 5 days a week so there are days every week when he doesn't see DD at all. I am a SAHM so I fly solo quite a bit.
pear / 1697 posts
We both WOH full time. I solo for about 2.5 hours/day on the three days that my partner commutes in to work in person. My partner solos for 6-8 hours when I work on Saturdays. We take turns sleeping in on Sundays and Mondays.
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